Big Data

Managing the reference data required by a decision is a common challenge for most rule applications. And depending upon your requirements, you have several options for storing that data, such as SQL Endpoints, cloud-based databases, and external service options. But...

Artificial intelligence, and more specifically machine learning, is everywhere these days. We hear about applications for facial recognition, product recommendations, fraud detection, hedge fund trading, airline pricing, natural language processing, medical diagnosis,...

Recently I explored some of the decision management touch points with Hadoop. The most obvious was the classic ETL scenario where folks (analysts and data scientists) explore batch scenarios across large datasets—really big ones. While there are so many ways for our...